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No. 479,119. Patented July 19, 1892.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MYRON A. GILMAN, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,119, dated July 19, 1892.

Application filed June 10, 1891. $eria1No. 395,747. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MYRON A. GILMAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in Westfield, in the county of l-Iampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Figure Toys, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure l is a side elevation of my improved toy. Fig. 2 is a similar View, certain parts being broken away and partly in section. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side View in section with the upper part of the frame removed and showing two sound-producing instruments in position. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing two air-supply tubes applied to the device.

a designates the base; I), a frame mounted thereon; c, the walls or casing rising from and secured to the base.

at and. d designate figures yieldingly mounted in the frame. e is an inlet-tube,fan airpassage, and g a reed or other sound-producing device.

The base or'support a may be of any convenient construction, being of sufficient strength to have the walls 0 of the toy secured thereto and be a proper support thereto. The walls are cut away to form openings to disclose the figures.

The figures d and 01 may be of any desired pattern and have their bases 1 integral therewith and arranged or bent laterally at right angles to the body, with a portion 2 extending at the rear, substantially as shown in the drawings, the extension 2 serving as a means for securing the figure in position, and by such connection or support give a yielding and springing function to the figure when the force of an impinging current of air is applied against the fiat and turned-in under surface of the figure. The bases of the figures are turned laterally, so as to present a fiat plane to the air over the opening.

Opening into the base a is a tube e, which may be provided with an air-bulb h, by which the air may be forced through the tube to move the figures; or if an open end tube is used the mouth may be applied. The tube 6 leads into an air-passage f, opening upward through the base under the figures, so that the moving current of air will exert its force to move the figures by impinging against the fiat surface of the bases. In the path of the air-current I may arrange asound-pr'oducing device g, preferring to use for this purpose a reed, substantially as seen in the drawings.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings I have shown the device with an air-tube having two branches leading into the base of the toy, so that the figures may have independent currents directed tomove them, and also that should it be desired to operate but one figure at a time one of the branches of the tube may be compressed by the fingers, and thus prevent the current from reaching the figure it is desired should remain stationary.

What I claim is- 1. The toy herein described, consisting of a supporting-base a, formed with an air-passage opening up through the floor thereof, a yieldingly-supported figure having a base 1 integral therewith and turned laterally at right angles thereto and arranged over the air-passage, and a tube leading into the airpassage, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The toy herein described, consisting of a suitable support having two or more airpassages and an inlet-tube provided with branches of collapsible material leading to each conduit in said support, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

MYRON A. GILMAN. 

